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WASHINGTON — Montgomery County lawmakers want Metro to know that they do not support raising fares on customers or cutting service to help balance the budget. Metro wants Maryland, D.C. and Virginia to pay $882.8…

WASHINGTON — Metro is back to running trains on all tracks of the Orange and Silver lines after two cracked rails caused problems during the bitter cold Friday morning. The cracked rail was reported just…

WASHINGTON — Metro has scheduled a public hearing to take comments on the transit authority’s proposed fare hikes and service cuts. Metro is suggesting fare hikes of 10 cents on Metrorail and Metrobus. The off-peak…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Regional leaders are getting a briefing from the National Transportation Safety Board about last month’s fatal accident on the Washington subway. The NTSB’s acting chairman and officials from the Metro transit authority…

WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police have arrested four of 10 minors in a woman’s assault last month. Police released few details except to say that about 10 juveniles assaulted the woman near the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia says problems with the functioning of firefighters’ radios in the Metro system have been corrected. Problems with firefighters’ radios became an issue after an electrical malfunction Jan. 12…

WASHINGTON — A new report has been released by D.C’s. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency on the deadly smoke incident at L’Enfant Plaza Metro station on Jan. 12, 2015 . It is the latest salvo…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Firefighters had difficulty using their radios during an emergency on the Washington subway system because fire officials had made changes to their radio system without alerting their partners who oversee the subway,…

WASHINGTON — Metro is making changes after that deadly smoke event on the Yellow Line last week. Metro Deputy General Manager Rob Troup on Thursday ordered a list of 10 actions aimed at improving safety.…

WASHINGTON — Two people are recovering after a man shot them aboard a Metrobus in D.C. Monday night and police are searching for the suspected shooter and another “person of interest.” About 40 people were on the…

WASHINGTON — Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., says she was very disturbed by the evacuation response during a smoke incident in the tunnel at Le’Enfant Plaza last week. Metro needs to “be able to get…

WASHINGTON — Passengers on a smoke-filled subway train in the nation’s capital were still asking when help would arrive 27 minutes after the smoke was first reported, District of Columbia officials said Thursday. One woman…

WASHINGTON — When D.C. firefighters responded to Metro’s smoky tunnel near the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station Monday they may have been hampered by faulty communications. One person was killed and scores of others were hurt…